Rian Johnson has written some incredible movies. Movies like Brick and Looper are still incredibly popular with cinephiles. His two previous movies starring Daniel Craig as Bernoit Blanc, Knives Out and Glass Onion, have been complex murder mysteries while also subverting genre tropes in interesting ways. Perhaps all his previous work set the bar high, as Johnson says his new Benoit Blanc story, Wake Up Dead Man, is the hardest script he’s ever written.
Writing any sort of mystery story has to be difficult. The entire idea is to come up with a story that, while it could be figured out by the audience, is also difficult enough that it is unlikely to be solved before the end. However, Rian Johnson tells Empire that part of what made Wake Up Dead Man so difficult to write was its subject matter, due to his own religious upbringing. He said…
